By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) “I been poor my whole life. It’s like a disease.” And with that thought in mind, two brothers, Toby...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) On a hot mid-August summer weekend in Richmond, Virginia, thousands of music lovers gathered for the seventh annual...
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic “Deadpool” may have raised the bar far too high for the comic-book-turned-film genre. It was fresh, innovative, irreverent,...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings is a Grammy-nominated R&B band from Brooklyn. Their groove is funky like James...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) There’s something missing in actor Matt Damon and director/writer Paul Greengrass’s return to the Bourne action/spy/thriller franchise. It’s...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) The big debate shouldn’t be if this is the best Star Trek film ever. The more interesting conversation...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) It’s official. This is the year of animation. So many films from the genre are sprouting up like...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) The race for the “Best Animation Feature Film” Oscar is on. “Finding Dory” may be the most touching...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) Some things should be left in the past and forgotten. Case in point: Tarzan. This modern version, “The...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) “You can not own a child of God,” proclaims a slave named Moses (Mahershala Ali, HBO’s “Treme”). “We...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) Somewhere in this raunchy, bawdy comedy of errors is a young feminist story trying to get out. By...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) They’re 50 percent Black, 50 percent White. 100 percent Nerd. Go figure. Left to their own devices and...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) Start the great debate right now. Is The Jungle Book the best kid’s action film ever made? Possibly....
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) Director Christopher Nolan, gone. Oscar-winning actor Christian Bale, gone. There will never be another “The Dark Knight Rises.”...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) “I did it my way…” No, Ethan Hawke doesn’t sing those lyrics in this faux bio/film about jazz...
[fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=PxpX8-efsZI” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PxpX8-efsZI/maxresdefault.jpg”%5D By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic What is the tolerance level for collateral damage during drone strikes? It’s been a topical...
[fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=q9y3z-lx-ZE” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q9y3z-lx-ZE/maxresdefault.jpg”%5D By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic A good action-thriller movie keeps you tense, engaged and excited. A great action-thriller does all...
[fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=hyzQjVUmIxk” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hyzQjVUmIxk/maxresdefault.jpg”%5D By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic Somewhere in between the football tearjerker “Rudy” and the offbeat cult-classic Jamaican bobsled team bio...
By Dwight Brown, NNPA News Wire Film Critic “On the track, there is no Black and White, just fast and slow. For those 10 seconds you are...
[fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=z_yxgGFEBUE” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z_yxgGFEBUE/maxresdefault.jpg”%5D By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic Honor among thieves? Not with this bunch. These guys are playing a mean duplicitous game,...
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic “I’m super, but I’m not a superhero,” clarifies Deadpool, a petulant mutate. Yes, he has mighty powers, but...
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic Too soon. As the opening credits start to roll, you wonder why the producers didn’t’ give moviegoers a...
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic Movies have become a great comfort in what has been a tumultuous year. They’ve entertained us. Made us...
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic “Why would you pick a fighter’s life if you didn’t have to,” asks the old, retired ex-boxer Rocky...
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic The 1940s and ‘50s weren’t kind to people whose politics flirted with the far left, especially those in...
